Now, you have to know that any day that begins with a mandatory, company wide “Code of Conduct” session is not the best day of the year. Props to the HR folks, they work hard to make it interesting and fun, but let’s face it, there’s only so much fun to be had in Olympus or Sinai style mandates, no matter how many prizes are handed out for getting the questions right. Or when, as it turns out, trying to do the right thing winds up uncorking a barrel of monkies that you just got truly finished hawking for fear […]

Judging from a few interesting emails of late, it seems I have at long last been targeted by someone for online impersonation. Poor fool, I cannot imagine how or why they settled upon me; I’m the nearest thing to a “nobody” imagineable but for a brief blip on Usenet and a (relatively equally) brief blip in relation to H.B. 1630 (GA) in the ’90s. All the same, it seems someone thinks I’m worthy imitating. What’s that saying about the sincerest form of flattery? (wry grin) A quick look reveals limited efforts beginning somewhere in the mid 2005 – 2007 timeframe […]

The letter or email I did not write echoes in my head; I had the letters arranged on the page, ready to send, then I realized, it doesn’t matter. It never mattered. The only thing sending them would accomplish is creating that odd state of discomfort (if anything at all) where you wonder, briefly, how or why I got so upset when it’s OBVIOUSLY so unimportant. Forever missing importance and finding out after the fact; it’s like being so unimportant that no one can even remember (bother?) to tell you; it would be like apologizing to an ant you stepped […]

It’s official; something is about to change; I am no longer going to set any effort toward trying to fix a problem that no one but myself wants to solve. And I’m certainly not going to go out of my way to seek efficiency when it’s considered more effective to make three people run in circles for up to three months at a stretch than to have two people wait two to five days so that everyone can move forward without having to run in circles at all. I slept on it. I didn’t post when it was hot in […]

So, the endocrinologist agrees with me, I do not need to go on insulin. Hurray! This is a very good thing. Additionally, she agrees with me that, if I maintain my current trend of shifting eating habits and follow through on getting me arse back to the gym (now that I can!!), I may well be off Metformin in a year. Perhaps less. Much will depend upon seeing the A1C count get into the range of norms. I cannot possibly tell you what grand news this is; mostly because it means things are not as serious as the GP seemed […]

Fact: There is nothing quite so hard and painful as being faced with your own ignorance. I have just spent roughly three months operating in profound ignorance and something of a state of faith; this, an unusual thing for me, was engendered by my choice to once again take at “face value” information given both freely and in response to direct questioning on my part. Obviously, the value of a thing is demonstrated by how much you must give to get it and the answers to direct questions are not necessarily themselves direct. I am annoyed with myself over this. […]

Here’s an interesting thing — I’m losing weight. I haven’t made it to the gym just yet (holding until after move to get that in gear), but counting this week (a little over a month and a half now) I’ve lost about 15 pounds. Turns out I wasn’t eating enough. Hah! This definitely gets chalked up under the “Things I once knew and forgot along the way” category; you have to have at least 1500 calories a day or your body starts the ‘hard winter’ dynamic, slowing your metabolism and generally hording as much into fat as it can manage. […]

I suppose the things I find amusing may not be funny to others. Reckon we’ll see. My daughter called last night and lightly upbraided me for shutting down my Facebook account. It took some minutes to help her understand (a) I’ve done it before, (b) Assuredly it is not permanent, (c) I have too much going on to have to keep up with it at the moment, (d) I’m tired of passive-aggressive folk whining at me for failing to respond to their “OMG~!!~~” latest status, and (e) Having to keep up with remembering to update my privacy settings every time […]

Sunday night. Coming down from the recent stresses of juggling a new health crisis while entertaining a visitor and trying to keep either from impacting work or school. Sometimes, I do not realize that mine is an often frenetic life. It doesn’t feel that way; it actually feels kind of boring. I know, weird, I suppose. Inside my head, it just seems rather mundane and uneventful. Even when things are exploding or imploding all around me. I keep thinking that eventually, I will find the enthusiasm and excitement that it seems everyone around me has, but most days are really […]